“The Score”

You ever come to those pages in the Bible where they list 50 names & be like ✌🏾🏃🏾‍♂️💨 right by em?? That’s normally me, but when I hit Joshua 12 The Holy Spirit told me to stay there..and doubled down by having me do research [“these aren’t just names, they mean SOMETHING!” is how it was put to me]. Chapter 12 lists out the kings and areas that were conquered by the Israelites. Through the “small” amount of research I did [forewarning there’s 31 kings!] I found the names to define either things that GOD wanted rooted out of the land, or things that He promised us in the earth that these kings had taken hold of and made themselves lord over them.

There’s waaay too much info to breakdown and research on one visit (even for me), so this may be something I go back and revisit down the road. I won’t give my take on any of these (at this time), I’ll simply let Holy Spirit impart what He will to those who read and go research for themselves:

Sihon king of the Amorites - rooting out, conclusion (ruled Heshbon “invention, inventory”)

• ruled from Aroer (heath or “health, a low, woody, and often evergreen plant that grows chiefly on poor wet soil.”)

Brook of Jabook -

• Evacuation, wrestle, dissipation [to squander or fritter away (money, energy, or resources)]

Arabah plain -

• desolate and dry area

Beth-jeshimoth -

• house of waste

Pisgah -

• summit, top of a mountain; refers to a condition of life when you are at the verge of breakthrough, but a force prevents you from attaining it. You can see the miracle but unable to walk into it. The Bible says God took Moses to the top of Pisgah and showed him the Promised Land

Og king of Bashan -

• last of the giants; (Bashan) rich pastures & thick forests

• Lived in Ashtaroth - flock, sheep, riches [Ashtaroth became a general term denoting goddesses and paganism.]

Edrei -

• a very great mass, or cloud

• Ruled over Hermon (taboo, consecrated)

Salecah -

• (moving along; going about; migration; wandering). A group of thoughts of a migratory, changeable nature (think on this in terms of mental and spiritual walk)

Baal-gad-

• lord of fortune, or troop of Baal

Mount Halak -

• (in Hebrew to go, live; in English destruction, slaughter, death) rises towards an area called Seir (Hairy, goat, demon, tempest)

Gezer-

• dividing, sentence

Debir-

• oracle town; sanctuary [the inner-most part of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple]

Geder-

• wall, fence

Hormah -

• “broken rock", "banned", or "devoted to destruction"

Arad -

• a wild ass, dragon, fugitive

Libnah -

• whiteness

Adullam -

• refuge, a hiding place

Mekkedah -

• worshipping, burning, raised, crookedness

Bethel -

• house of God

Tappuah -

• apple, apple region, love apple

Hepher -

• a digger

Aphek -

• strength, a rapid torrent

Lasharon -

• evil speech

Madon -

• contention, place of judgement, strife

Hazor -

• village, trumpet, enclosure

Shimron-meron-

• The Place Of Watching And Getting Fat, Vigilance And Prosperity

Achshaph - sorcery

Taanach -

• Who humbles thee, who answers thee

Megiddo -

• place of crowds [site of Armageddon?]

Kadesh -

• “holy”

Jokneam - possessing, or building up of the people

• in Carmel “garden”

Dor -

• generation or habitation, to dwell

Goiim- nations

• in Gilgal “A Circle Of Stones, A Wheel, A Rolling Away”

Tirzah -

• delight, pleasantness